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                                             NEWS: DAILY BULLETIN

          SERB COLONEL - A WITNESS AGAINST KARADZIC AND MLADIC

Bonn, The Hague, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Serb colonel from
Banjaluka accepted to witness before the International Tribunal,
about mass graves where Bosniaks and Croats were buried, writes
tomorrow's issue of German paper "Der Spiegel". The colonel's
name is not specified. The paper says he was close to Karadzic.
     The colonel will bear witness about concentration camps,
death camps, the sites where Serbs massacred local people and
captured non-Serbs. The witness arrived at the Hague secretly,
aided by some western states' diplomacy, and is placed at an
unknown place provided with strict security measures. The colonel
says th corpses of thousands of victims in the mountain lakes and
abysses in the area of Omarska, Vitovlja and Manjaca were covered
with many tons of stones from the nearby mines. (end) A.S.  

          MICHAEL STEINER ON MOSTAR

Bonn, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - M.Steiner, high official of the
German Foreign Ministry, ambassador to the Contact Group, and the
PIC (Peace Implementation Council, the Contact Group's successor)
High Representative's (C. Bildt) deputy, told the German TV's 1st
channel (ARD) that situation in Bosnia was good at the level of
the Federation and Republic, "but rather bad in Mostar, primarily
due to mafia groups, wishing at all costs to impede functioning
of the Federation. Therefore, the USA and the EU have already
made a proper pressure on Zagreb." (end) A.S.

          STAY OF BOSNIAN REFUGEES IN GERMANY EXTENDED

Bonn, Jan 1996 (Press TWRA) - Germany has extended the stay of
32O,OOO Bosnian refugees expiring late this March, for another
three months. Ministries of the Interiors of 16 German Federal
Republics defined July, 1 as a start of a gradual 14-month period
for the return of refugees. First to be returned are single
persons, then those whose families are in B-H and childless
couples. German federal minister of the interior, Manfred Kanther
says the first group includes 2/3 of refugees. They should leave
till mid 1997 and the other group till Aug 31, 1997. Exempted
from this plan are the sick, the old and children attending
German schools. Kanther says that the refugees will return home
to check the situation  and will be allowed to return to Germany
in two months if they decide not to live in Bosnia. (end) A.S.

          MYSTERIOUS DISEASE OF THE US SOLDIERS

Washington, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Pentagon investigated a
mysterious illness from which about 5O IFOR US soldiers fell ill,
spokesman Ken Bacon said. The disease is not life danger, causes
rush & slight temperature, and is believed to be virus-caused.
The ill soldiers were in the same arms depot and hotel in
Brussels, in two different time intervals. (end) A.S.## CrossPoint v3.02 ##